What's Your Angle?

Remember when adults told you to pay attention and do good in math because you'll need it when you grow up? They weren't lying. 

On the plan we wanted a "Western" barn front facade, which would blend with our Dutch barn that has a gambrel roof. My CAD program didn't have any roof that matched the western barn  criteria, so I had to design it based on all the barns around the Old Sweetwater area.

Seemed simple until I had to figure compound degrees and angles that would not just work on paper, but on a crooked little carport (see yesterday's post).

 "Let's see, I'll make the shed roof sides at 15 degree angles to cover the crooked angle that exists, but the end boards will have to be 12 1/2 degrees to be 90 degrees square - in a perfect world. Then the center section, which is 8 feet wide by 3 feet tall will be 40 degrees, but the center board peak...."

"I  need brain food!" I cried out.
"Cheerios will have to do," my honey replied.

"Add almonds and pray."

"Yep, because you didn't figure on the double door header either," he mumbled.

Back to the drawing board, literally. I wonder if Miss Brusike, one of my best math teachers, is still alive and teaching?

   

I'm going to light a soy candle and soak in the tub. We bought this one at Lowes (where I've spent a lot of time lately).

There was a crooked man...

Yes, those are studs for the facade wall. Yay!  We're doing a little happy dance.

"Let me see the drawing and plans," my honey said as he concentrated on something else.

"This can be altered," I reassured him. "Of course, we'll have to adapt it to the carport..." I mumbled because he wasn't looking at me, but the carport's metal posts.

"Did we put a level to all these?" he asked.

"Yes. The first corner post. It was dead level."

He walked the length and width of the carport with four-foot level in hand and replied, "Well, it's the only one. It's leaning north to south and it's leaning east to west. Every metal post is not evenly spaced..." he drew a breath...."and it slopes down hill. Where were our minds?"

Dancing ceased.

There's an English nursery rhyme that goes something like...

"There was a crooked man, who walked a crooked mile.

He found a crooked sixpence against a crooked stile.

He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse,

And they all lived together in a little crooked house."

Make that...a crooked workshop.
 

This beautiful door knock from Pottery Barn is $39.00

Silly Me Sunday

It stopped raining enough for us to start laying the bottom sill made from treated lumber (upper left photo). Yay! Then it started raining and the temperatures dropped again.  *sigh*

"Ya know what? This drizzling rain makes for a great opportunity to go to Barnes and Noble." I suggested.

Thirty minutes later we were sitting with two steaming cups of java as we scrunched down on two amber colored leather chairs. We had arms-full of books to look at ------ Heavenly!  A couple of hours later, we returned with rested minds and bodies...and a book.

Back to the grind!

Any other Barnes and Noble fans? Borders fans? What kind of coffee do you drink in your favorite book store?